Violin



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M. B. ROGERS.

VIOLIN.

No. 246,911. Patented Sept. 13,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES B. ROGERS, OF HOLDEN, MAINE.

VIOLIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,911, dated September 13, 1881,

Application filed J uno 13, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MosEs B. ROGERS, of Holden, of the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Violins or Stringed Musical Instruments having Sounding-Boards; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accom panyiu g drawin gs,which illustrate a violin provided with my invention- Figure 1 being a top view, Fig.2 a longitudinalsection, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of the body oftheinstrument with my improvement, which consists of what I term a sonora or wedge-shaped open box, combined with and arranged in the sounding-board substantially as represented.

This sonora is equally applicable to a bass or tenor viol, or to a viola or guitar, and even to various other stringed instruments, a violin with it being greatly improved in tone, as experience has demonstrated.

In the drawings, the sonora is shown, at A, as inserted in the sounding-board a and in the belly b of the Violin B, and between the fin ger- (No model.)

board 0 and the bridge cl and beneath the strings s of the instrument. This sonora is open atits base, as represented, and is arranged so as to have such base in the plane of, or a little above, the upper surface of the soundingboard. The vertex of the sonora should not be ward the strings, all being substantially as set forth. I

MOSES B. ROGERS. Witnesses:

'W. P. BUN, MARIA L. ROGERS. 

